title: A quality control exercise of radionuclide calibrators among Belgian hospitals.
abstract: On the initiative of the Belgian Association of Hospital Physicists, eleven Belgian hospitals participated in a quality control of radionuclide calibrators conducted in collaboration with the Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements of the Commission of the European Communities. For practical reasons the nuclide 57Co was chosen. The results from 20 different radionuclide calibrators show a fair agreement with a similar comparison carried out in 1980 in the UK.
authors.affiliation: Commission of the European Communities, Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements, Geel, Belgium.
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Reher
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Merlo
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D002138:Calibration / Q000592:standards; D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D009684:Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards
chemical_list: D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes